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,' i. " ,ti., -T V.- . . ' ' 1 - 1 I ' - - s . JOB .PRINTING n: nni rdranrsn i ill LV:rT mime: 3 Publishers and Proprietors. r'ri"?.' ' trr&4 taniiiimwi; ' Vl 2t arsey1 I wwc wn ' ktATKtM, DIM ATOM. J , . w ; A aT r ; v VERY LOTVfST PRICES tractl; wt'S aars eVe. MS:-CASH J APVAJTCE. 1- " - i i sr 'iii Qeteiti fa jgafifits, ttcrnfmt, gritvlfare, fye Jfixrfofs sni general nfcmraor. . three . .. ' ... .75 VOL. XXIX. SALEM N. C, NOVEMBER 17,- 1881. NO. 45. lie 1 air 1 . ' i. Jliver, oh rj By t lie River. er, that aingeth all Bight, -- lor waltest for Kffht "fo pour out thy mirth '" 1 -Along the chill earth, ' Ths words of thy song let toe knew. "I come, and I go." River, oh river; with irwell and with fall, ' - Thy musical call - Waketh, snmmoneth riVe ;" : XVhat.thought is in thee Xha4 lulls me, yet rouses n so ? "Iqpme, and I go." "River, oh river, a word thou must gw To help me to live. " Than sing on thy way ; Sing the joy of To-Day Time's ripple, Eternity's flow. ' ' I come, and I go." Eirr, oh river, thy message is clear. Ohank on, for I near. "What the mountains give me . Bear I fonli to the sea. life only is thire to bestow. I coma, and I go." ftiver, oh rivw, thy secret of power I eta from this hour: T,y rhythm of delight Tny eong in the night : 1 am lad with thy gladness; for, lo ! I -come, and I go, T.ttcjr Larcom, in Harper's Magaiine. -A. DEAD YEAR ': I took a rear cut of my life and story, A dead yeTir and I said, 'I will build thee a tomb.'" Honeysuckle was wreathed about the window, bat its straying branches, gemmed with "arabesques of balm," only made a lovely frame for the two young heads that were always to be found at this hour bent over their books. I ued to stroll half uncon sciously to a eoigne of vantage in the warden and watch them my little sister INeafe, with her tumbled bronze curls, und her GOman teacher's small grace -iul head, with its crown of gold. I :had spoken to her but seldom, still I iknew by heart the uplifting of those .calin-lidded forget-me-not eyes, the face with its pure coloring, the slender and lithe young form in its dull blue dress, with the tiny lace ruffle on the round white throat, and tho sweet mouth with its wistful smile now and then at mv sister's odd blunders. I found a strange pleasure in meeting her as if by acci dent as she left, and noting the faint roseleaf flush stealing up into her pale cheek. I would have been at a loss to account for the sadness of such a young jace, but Kest had told me that she was all alose in this new land where her father had brought her, and my heart was touehed at the thought. She has told me about her father 60 much," chattered Nest, "he was ssuch a wonderful man iike a wizard, T should think :buthe.was only a doctc , Iiildasaysr ""She thinks the doctors m Germany know more than ours at Jest she is sure her father did." i "Poor child!" I said. ; "Do you know," whispered Ernes tine, with an air of mystery, "that ; there , is something very curious about I Hilda she forgets things!" ; ''VI' laughed outright. "Scarcely a ' peculiarity in " I began. -"Oh, now Trait. I mean very im portant things. Now, eho was in Ger many when the war broke-out with France, and I wanted to know all about it. . Well, do you believe, she couldn't : tell me anything, not tne least fact !" and Nest looked very serious and wise. What id she say about it V "Oh, that she forgot. Now, Mal coin, yen .now when our native land is in Deril we don't forget." My little sister was quite patriotic, and it ' seemed to her a phenomenon that one should not have a tb agh knowledge of all that , regarded one's own country. " Oh, well, she might have been at a 'convent school,' or " "That's the stra,nae thiog about it." " What ?" "She don't know where she wasl" I own I was somewhat startled by this announcement. - . " Does she say so ?" "She says she don't recollect." "Perhaps she has had brain fever and forgotten the past." " No, sha remembers all thopagtvery well." " Exceist how long?'' " One year the year of the war. She eecms troubled about it, too." ' "Thep yon must not dwell upon it," T sail. "You don't want to .annoy ' her?' "No. I love her I love her de arly!" said Nest; flying off after a very tempt ing black 'velvet butterfly wi h golden trimming oa its polonaiBe. . . - I felt- lifee echoing my little sister's senthneiita, and then fsmiled ia scorn of inysejt" How could I love a woman of whose mind and heart I knew noth ing I' who had always raved about sympathy of bduL.. . , . ; I couid noS explain it as I;paced the garden walks. It was fate rfor-ordin-1 ation. perhaps: but one thing Iiknew ' It va'a a fact I loved my sister's teach ,! e.-, Hilda Blumenthal, with a feeling I never experienced before, and I sud denly discovered that the German lan-tfnogd-.wald Iwtrreeedingiy necessary ; Vi W -neia.jn profession. i : ;:fJ?Isetya tnt mA study th girl's face, i and I iovrd it very puzzling. Innocent, angolio -ia'it was, there were strange experience" o! pain written upon it. It did r-ot seern like the face of one who had.oniyturned over a few of yojitb,8 white pages in tlio book of life,, but rather as if. she ha4 looked into many a bloted"and blurred one blntteiwifh tears,' blurred by the soul's agony into a mist. can scarcely explain' how -from, the oves, so blu8 and childlike, some- tMnc? seemed at times to lok out. with unutterable experiences from their depths; lurking there like some wild ppirit that ould not quite be laid. It is ia vtiin if try and explain it, but it would con n ever me with a sudden agony at timos that onco some one had held the fair white hands clasped bo listlessly in her lap, that the kiss of love had t orne time been laid on that sweet, prithetitf mouth.? I think that feeling came over me the : most painfully just after the fullness of ' : joy when it was my hand that clasped v 1 , . IJ .1 1 T I v 1 . K-f-. neri. "ij Jipa mai uaa Doucnea ners as reverently as if she had been a saint, jjniimv, x saia, "aia you ever care-for any one before - "Ns-ver," she answered, promptly, in iyu uA.oweefc cpniem; "ana A am glad, Malcom. I'm sure I could not love twice,.' Bo no one ever held you to his bean as 1 am doing ?" I questioned " No, no. Why do you ask ?" Jl Because I am a Jealous monster," I said with a laugh; "because I would not have a thought or a memory dwell on any one else." . -j, " Ah, well, yOHv shall be "satisfied. Only you. will not' mind if fir think of my father, and remember him V -"Oh, nevmypetf l aoCnol 0 un reaaonahleJ1. - " He would be so glad that his child had found so good, so true! a man to protect her," she said, tears dimming heTJJweet eyes.." "Ah, if he comld hare Bred t,o have ioeix this day I You would hav'e " revered him, Malcom. He was full of wisdom. He had? wonderful learning and wonderful power. He was a doctor, you know, and he could do as much for the mind as the body. I will show you his papers some time his diary and then you will know him bet ter.. I can't bear to look at them my self, but I long for you to know some thing of him. And he died oh, so suddenly in a moment !" I could not feel such an intense in terest in the dead doctor as my dear girl seemed to expect, but I feigned it for her sake, and a few dayB afterward tooK tne pacaage of papers as rever ently as she gave them, promising my- seii that I really would look through them some time. But I know I thought more at tnat moment of the knot of lilies of-the-valley at my darling's throat and how virginal and pure she looked and I wondered if ever on God's earth a saintlier soul had looked out of the eyes of a woman. And yet, sometimes, I seemed to catch vanishings of a world of thought and feeling remote from me a region where I had not entered, where I did not belong. One day I suddenly remembered Nest's confid- nee to me, and it occurred to ma to test it. " Were they very much disturbed in Heidelberg that summer the war broke out?" I asked. ; She flushed and hesitated. "You were home weren't you V "I I can't remember," she said, in a constrained voice. . ; , . 4 ' Why, it is only five years ago, my pet ; don't your memory go back for five years?" "Oh, further than that," she said, quickly ; " but Malcolm, I have been puzzled about it very often. I will tell you, there is just that one year I cannot remember anything about " Great heaven ! could it be that she had lost her reason during that time and been in an insane asylum? The thought came to me like a flash of elec tric light, and thrilled me with pain. Was there the taint of insanity in my darling's blood ? The doubt stung me. How else could she have lost a year out of her life? " Were you sick or sad when you re member your life again T " Oh, no; we were full of hope about the new country, for we were coming here. , v lv Am1 3k1 yea evertallt to your fataer about if?" ' - "My dea Malcom, would you be lieve it that I never discovered till lately that a year had slipped out of my life in such a mysterious manner ? It was xixing dates about the war that did it, and then poor papa was : in the churchyard." And she looked so sad that I kissed her, saying: "Never mind about the lost year, darling. I will make the coming years so bright that you will soon forget it. " I don't care for it now, if you don't," she whispered, with her head upon my shoulder; " only it makes me etrange, unlike other girls." " So you are unlike them 1" I ex claimed, in a lover's rhapsody; " so much sweeter and purer an i saintlier," and so on through the rosary cf love. But still, once in a while, like a dis cord among the sweet notes, the thought of that year would recur to mo. I knew all my darling's life, all her pure, sweet thoughts, and I grew jealous of those closed and sealed pages in a very unreasoning way. One night, a week before our wed? ding day, which was fixed in the rosy month of June, I sat at mv window idly looking out into the moonlit gar den, when a thought struck me the diary why had. I not thought of it be fore? Surely that would throw noma light upon this year I own I did not take it up without a thrill, as if. I wer j disturbing some dead and buried sor row. 1 nad a very curious sensation about it, a cold chill creeping over me, as if I were entering a grave. And was I not about to interrogate the dead about the living? I turned over the pages without interest till I came to a certain date, and even then I was not. thoroughly interested till I saw Hilda's name as follows : " July 12. I'm glad Hilda likes her school. It was a struggle to let her go, but best that she should not spend her young life with an old man so absorbed in science.. She is out of the. way of lovers, too, and will be better guarded. I began to fear an interest in young Von Eberstein dissipated ! young spendthrift as he is, has just the kind of romantic appearance, with his large melancholy dark eyes, that would fasci nate my fair little girl. But Madam Gerhard will look after all this the child is onlv sixteen-i-too young to think of love, and I would rather lay her in her grave than give her : to Yon Eberstein she knows it, too. y; X " August 2,-r-I am drawing near to a wonderful discovery, and I tremble as one who stands on the shore of the in finite at this new shell Of knowledge that I have picked up. Why should it not be that one might learn to forget. Oh, the torture of memory to the sin ner, it is the hell that is the penalty of his sin. If one could " " Well, I did not finish on this topic. I was so eager to go on about my dar-1 ling, so I hurried over the leaf till I saw her name again, and then I dropped the book paralyzed with terror, for this is what I read: September 30. God in heaven have mercv I Mv child is gone I bhe went ' . - . out on some little snoppttig expedition, they write me; she was seen walking under the trees with a young man. Ach, IXimmel !" I know who he was I may God Almighty punish him for ever and that was the last. Oh, Hilda ! oh, my little white dove'l Oh, my heart is bteaxingl But I will find her V- I will kill the miserable wretcn, tne There was a sudden break here, and I could have read no more. ' My heart seemed to standstill, and I wondered if madness had not conjured up the whole. I passed my hand over my eyes, stared out into the moonlight at the familiar scene, took up a rosebud tnat Hilda had given me that evening, and dropped it again and crushed it under my heeL Was she so false and such a consummate actress, too? How innocent, how guile less. Ah t my brain burned and every pulse beat painfully, but I. picked up the book again. Perhaps there was some mistake. I must know the worst. There was a long hiatus no entry till "January 31. Thank heaven! I have found her so miserable, so abject, that I have only wept and taken her in my arms and whispered that, though all the world turn againBt her, her father's heart and home are open. She has told ma the whole story the lovers' meet ing, and how he wiled her away with lies about priest waiting, and his mother's wadding-ring. No one would know my girl now, and no one shall have a chance to see her; the neigh bors do not know she is in the house. But when I find the accursed villi an who ha wrecked hfr life" Here followed the most Mood -curdling threats and vows, but I could not read them, I hurried on. " February 10. I do not write much here now what have I to tell? I have forgotten all the other wrecks of hu manity in the one that sits beside my hearth, looking with listless eyes on all. I cannot rouse her to anything, Life seems at an end for her. Tne hor ror, the amaze, seems to have turned her to stone, and in this marble image a heart pulsus painfully, a brain dazed, yet forever recurring, In terrible mono tone, to one experience, throbs on. My God, I must do something ! I waken each day with a horror that I shall find her dead by her own hand ! She was so white a thing. Oh, God! Thou know est that she shudders at herself. " March 20. I laid the first snow drop of the year in her hands this morn ing, and she burst into tear., bhe has always loved flowers so much, my poor little girl. Last year she gathered them herself, and they crowned her their Queen of May. Oh, my God! if she could forget! " March 25. If she could but forget ! Why not? I hold the key and can lock up the past at will. It is memory that is killing her. Then I will kill memory, and she will be my own pure little girl again for she is pure. It ' is only the good who are tortured by memory the evil do not suffer. It is only to paralyze, by electric shock, certain knot of nerves, and all this misery will be wiped off, as with a sponge, from the tablet of memory. Thank God, the power is in my Lands. 1 believe He has given it to me to save my child. "April 10. Oh, God in heaven, I thank Thee. It has succeeded beyond my hopes. She is growing well rosy even and she has forgotten ! I have" found ray -child again, and she has re gained her happiness and innocence ! She remembers nothing nothing of the slow hours of despair when the burning plowshares went over her. I have tested her, I have even mentioned his name the accursed one and she did not know it ! We are going to America, wnere no 'echo of her story can 9vor reach her, and we will be happy once more together." I only looked at one entry more, which spoke of Hilda's happy smiles and tender love to the father in the strange land, and the pleasant little home that she brightened with her presence, and then there was the end very soon after. I closed the book. I knew,all now, and wished that I could, like Hilda, forget. I sit motionless, not heeding whether it was night or day. - Hilda! my saint with the holy eyes! I knew why I had seen etrange vanish ings of ex ressions so hard to interpret in those eyes; why there waa an inex plicable 6adness about them as of eyes acoustomed to tears; why her month held such possibilities of pain. She had not deceived me, after all. There was nothing in her past, as she knew it, that could bring a blush to her cheek. And yet I knew, and the knowledge seemed to build up an invisible wall be t ween us a gulf that I could see al though she eould not. How could I betray her childlike trust in me? On what plea could I break the bond be tween us? Her wedding-dress was made. She had shown it to me in innocent, girlish pride, and it was wreathed with white lilies-cf-the-valley as pure and as sweet as herself, I had paid. I would write to her; I could not look her in the face and give her up. No; it would be dastardly to write, to give her the stab in the dark, and not know what she suffered. After all, she had been sinned against, and the very memory of it was Past, her htart was as pure as a little child's. So the reader will gness the sequel. Love conquered, and we were married. Never a more innocent, girlish face beamed beneath a bridal vail; never purer, shyer eyes were raised to receivo a hus band's kiss. ' I was happy; only now and then a torturing thought would torment me. Gould that certain tangle of nerves of which the doctor spoke ever regain its power? A paralyzed limb sometimes recovers a feeble motion. What a hor ror if the slumbering brain woke and tne terrible past,' with all its hideoua- ness, should dawn suddenly upon my Hilda! I found i her as good, aa gentle, as I had dreamed, with a tender,- loving heart, and quiet, generous impulses. We did not go to Germany on our wed ding journey, although she urged it, and it was my first negative to her wishes. I was afraid afraid of an echo from the past. But we went to Paris, and I dazzled my simple wife's eyes with the pretty things I bought for her. We went in and out of the grand oid galleries, too, and she developed a taste for the old masters, and a knowledge of art that charmed me. Each day seemed to bring up from the clear pellucid waters of this young life some "pearl of purest ray serene" that I accepted with new delight. One day we had gone back to our hotel weary of the day's work, although it had been all pleasure. I did not notice the nnusual crowd at the entrance, oeing somewnat absorbed in my own thoughts, when I felt Hilda's grasp o my arm. - "Oh, poor manl" she cried, "he must be terribly hurt." Then I saw tnat several persons were Buppbrting a young man, with a ghastly, death-like face and closed eyes, into the nearest room. "Bun over," vouchsafed a stranger near "must have been blind or drunk." At that moment the young man opened a ; pair of large, dark, melan cholv eyes, and looked at us. "Hilda! God!" he groaned; "Hilda, yon are avenged!" And he was dead. No one seemed to notice the words no one but L Even Hilda, who had heard them, looked only shocked and full of pity. "Come, we cannot help him; let ns get away!" I exclaimed, shaking as one in palsy. " How very, very sad!" said my wife, as she laid off her hat " Perhaps he has a little wife at home, for he said Hilda.' There are so many Hildas. Ob, my darling! I am glad I am not that Hilda. And he looked aa if he had led an evil life, though he waa very handsome." I held her close to my heart, for it seemed to me a ghostly hand was pluck ing her away. I was not surprised when, on asking the name of the unfortunate man the next day, I was informed that on the letters in his pocket was this address: " Graf Rudolph von Eberstein." " A hard nut," someone volunteered, "thev sav he'd swallowed three for tunes, and would have soon been in the gutter, bo he slipped out of the world in good time, to save him the trouble of shooting himself." " His name was Yon Eberstein, Hilda." I said, with a wild desire to know the Worst. She was holding a bit of olive plush in her band and working some won drous arabesque of gold upon it " German, then," she said, quietly. " Malcom, won't this be pretty for a table-cover in our new home ?" Then my heart was at rest, and I thanked God and took courage. Thb lost year was-dead and buried beyond the power of resurrection in this life. the lesson it teaches ia to a great extant lost. TJarpmM WvXln aaya that "the story of General Arthur' nomination for the Vice-Presidency Is exceedingly interest ing. After the stormy session that led to the dropping of General Grant and Mr. Blaine, and the nomination of General Garfield, it adjourned till cran ing to consider the queation of Vice President It waa' conceded that the nomination should bo giTen to New York, and that the candidate must come from the Grant element Three names were mentioned Levi P.Morton, Btew art L. Woodford and General Arthur. When the New York delegation met, the two former withdraw, and the lat ter was selected by a decided vote. Bnt General Arthur objected, aa it had already been a t reed upon by Senator Ocnkjisg and his friendVthat he should be chosen lo succeed Mr. Kern an in the United States Senate. Indeed, this re sult was almost certain. It was only after the strongest persuasion of Gov ernor Dennison. of Ohio, and others, that Uenetal Arthur yielded nia own. wishes, and allowed his name to be used in completing the ticket" WISE WORDS. Never associate with bad Have good company or none. Trust not ' the piolUhed smooth-tongued stranger; slippery. , k company. none, or both re THE DEAD SEA. Mack XaJtaaMKaala. The New York Ealjt rabliaha the following graphic deacripUon of the Dead sea, from the pen of Rev. Theo dore Coyler: Our afternoon a march otct the bleak treeleea and brown mountain cf the wflderneaa waa ioexpretaiblv W 1 MAUe until we eame in aicht of the Dead aea. It lay 2,000 feet below ua a mirror of ilver, et among the violet mountaina of Moab. More precipitous deeeenta over rocka and eand broajtht n. by sun down, to the two towers of the moat unique monastery of th globe. The famous convent of Mar Stba ia worth a journey to Palestine). t Fer thirteen tonea that wtttd erf ol .elraeiax fcaa hung again it the walls of the deep. awful gorgo of the Kid roc It is a coloaaal awaUowa neat i t siooi built to theheijrht of 800 feet a?ainjt the precipice, and inhabited by alxty monks of the Greek church rename Manicheana and followers of Si. Saba and St. John of Damaacue. No wo man's foot baa ever entered the con vent' walla 1 Instead of woman's so ciety they make love to the bird, who come and feed off the mooka' hand. kTery evening thev to meat down to the wild jackal in the gorge Lelow. At annaet I climbed over the extraor dinary buildiog was kLowti into the rather hacdaome church, ami into. the chapel or cave of St. Nichols, which FACTS ASD C0XK.VT. Aeotrveation of Irazaoroae paragraph era is talked of. The unfortunate city npon which this aomber aktion will fall has not yet bees named. lit. Malhall. a badis Esgliah ata thrtkian, estimate that the United States ia accumulating wealth at the rai of at laat $2,600,000 a day. cr. in roand numbers, at $ 1.000. OCO.000 a year, and I tat ax the iixi uions pritt to a eootinnanee of thie enoditloa. Widower will be ia the eaeendaary ia Washington thla eaon, aa tha President ia widower, tae new BritUh AfalaWr i alao and ao fa Mr. Allen, the Hawaiian minister, now the Jean of the diplomaUe corpa. There are alo aev araj wfcewr In eh JaoCan af Goo gra Atcoxur the e&atoria widower are Anthony, David Davis, and Josea. of Florida. Senator Ferry i a bachelor. . .. 1 1 l contain theghaatly akalleol the monk iSth fhT iov.'nof h0 iMfbfia by Choaroe and anoe, areotta par with the joy. of fu PeiM Miera-and gaied dowa Life Among the Icelander. This quaint and curious town is as odd in its way as the famous Lap city of Hammerfest, the moat northern ; in Europe. In 1874, when they celebrated the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of their republic two years before America made such a fuss about het lit tle one hundred years there has been a tpirit of European innovation abroad which threatens in time to destroy the na tive characteristics of the place. Al ready the houses on the outskirts of the city begin to appear over ground, and at a glance one gets a fair idea of the place. In the pat the people of Beyk jarik were troglodytes, as most of . the other dwellers on the island are yet They lived in bees or holes in the ground covered with praked roofs, and so sod ded over that at a short distance one could not tell them from the surround ing sward. In riding about the inte rior of the island one cornea unexpect edly on these houses in the midat of the plain, without surrounding fences or anything lse to give indication of a hum.iu habitation. Of all the dirty holes in the world, these native boss are the dirtiest, ana now people Jive in them, is beyond comprehension. One. Ealf of their dirt in a temperate climate would breed pestilence. In the winter time the cattle, chickens, dogs and sheep herd together here. The Ikes are about twenty feet long by ten wide, and always two of them are built close to gether and connected by a narrow pass age. In one. which has no furniture, the cooking is done at an open fire built on the ground, from which the smoke escape, through a hole in the roof. At all times the floor of this apartment , which is on the ground, is dank and soft. This fire in,wintcr ia the only means of warmth the natives have, and' so they accumulate the animals in their dwellings to borrow ; some of their heat. To attempt to warm a bos with one of these tires ia about equivalent to trying to warm the United States with a match. The fires are of turf and sea weed, and. what with the blinding smoke emitted by the fuel, the smell of cattle, and the not sweet odor of the father, mother and litter of young brats, one imagines what a good metropolitan sewer might be. This is not the excep tion, but the rule; for in Iceland, as elsewhere, owing to the non-adaptability of means to ends, there- are more poor people than rich. Revkjivik proper is mostly made up of well constructed ' ' houses, aa comfortable as could -be wihed. As with the Germans, 'fine linen rs the ambition of every thrifty housewife, and I have dined from off damask as thick as chamois, and wiped the sparkling drops of Danish whisky from my. lips with napkins as soft as Pongee -silk. Some of them are proud of their pedi grees, too, and I dined with a charming lady who allowed me to stir the sugar in my tea with a silver spoon with which hr honored and piratical ances tor used to mix bis punch. Tea out of an iron spoon of contemporaneous manufacture has tasted quite as good. In some of the houses I saw. bits of cabinet work and wood-carving that would so intensify the utterness . of the adorers of broken china and dreamers in wood as to make their present ravings seem mathematical and scientific They were all pirates here at one time, even as the Eoglemen, the aneeeeors of the English nation, were, and it so happens that unless yon can reach back your pedigree to piratical times yon don't belong to the aristocracy. Some of the descendants of the pirates have been ao busy getting a living that they have lost the count further back' than their grandfathers, and so the aristocracy here, as all the world -over, is confined to those who have nothing else to do than tb think of A their great-grandfather's great-grandmother. Among the lower classes the women' are not treated as well as one eculd wish, but they have some inestimable privileges.' I need not enlarge on this topi a. Publio spirit is liberal enough to allow women to ride astride, but they have no rating capacity, and in the matter of . labor they aro much favored. In other re spects, the people here do credit to their 1,000 years of civilization. They sup port fire newspapers, which, for a coun try of 80,000 Inhabitant, very scattered, is good. New York Herald. Aged 116 lean. Centenarians in America must look to their laurels. French papers report that there is now living at Luzy, in the department of the Saone-et-Loire, an old woman who, born April 21, 1766, is now in her hundred and sixteenth stance, dreamland. Life ia not ' eo short but that there ia always tima enough for courtesy. Self command is the main elegance. If there is any great and good thing iu atore fo? you, it will not eome'at the first or second call. . Life ia hardly respectable if it ha no generous taak, no duties of affection that constitute a necessity of existing. Every man' task is his life-preserver. The beet part of human character ia the tenderness and -delicacy of feeling in little matters, the desire to soothe and please other mlnuti as of the social virtue. It i hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth i not at the bottom d store will alway be endeav oring to return, and will pep oat and betray itaelf onetime or another. He understand a liberty aright who make hi own depend upon that of other. True liberty doea not permit the enfranchisement of one'a self through we enslavement 01 some one elae. C. Luck or chance ia the nutriment that ignorance freda to fools. The wis pursue desired ends by well de fined line of action; auch a policy being found nd in good aenae, la often nndi eated b aeee. A Mistake. It happened in a rongh mining town in Colorado. There waa a grand Iwll a) the ranch of Whisky Jack, a well-known character iu the " diggings' id the "elite " of the district responded to tho call in full force. The party was held in a rickety old barn belonging to tho host, ani with a few red atrim of red flannel, a groteque accumulation of mountain roses and a row of dripping candle, the appointments cf the place were perfect My first partner in the giddy dance ws the wife of tho man who killed the village pca master be cause he refused him a letter; she n fat fair and forty,, and danced with the grace of a cow. " My next partner waa the daughter of this charming pair, a young girl just bursting into the loveli ness of womanhood; aho w.s badly freckled, and aportt-d a wart on her nose. My next partner was a blooming grass-widow, a fresh arrival; and then 1 1 of BarUmens to ie;bt reaiea. 1 oegan to comment on new baUnt the aaored tTet M A 1 1 1 I laces in ia room aiv companion IB this pleasant pastime was a heavy bearded miner, uncouth.roughiy drwed, tobacco slobbered and very profane. This waa our first meeting and I hoped it would be the last. "There goes a hard-looking case," I whispered, as the wife of the man who killed the poetniaxter sailed by. " She' a bad 'un." . Ye,' replied the man. "IU hat to Lav the critter step on me. Whnt an elegant target ahe would make for a poor marekaHLan I", . . " Ye," I said, and turned my eye on a tall, raw-boned creature aailing toward us, enpported bra little mn into the awful ravino beneath the con vent walla Borne menks in bUck gowoa were perched a waVbraen on the lofty tower; others wandered over tbaatooe pavement ia a sort of aim!e vacuity. What an attempt to live in an exhausted receiver I The monka gave ua hoapitable wel come, aold na canea and woodwork, and furnished n lodgisga cn the divan of two largo atone parlors. One of the re ligiooa duties of the brotherhood i to keep ngil, and through the tifbt bells ere ranging and clanging to rail them to tbeir religious devotion. The ver min in the lodging-room hare icar&eo to keep up their vigil alau; and aa the reault our party with one excUion- uau a tjeepie ntguL 1 have auch a tah-nt for sleeping, an J like Pat " ray attention to it o rloacly that I waa able to defv even the fl and mos quitoea cf Mar Saba. Bv d'.:ght the next morning wo beard the great iron door of the convent clang behind na like the gat of Ban? an a "Doubtirg Oa-'Uf," and far five hour we cade a toilsome deacent cf the desolate cliff to the ahoro of the Dead tea That much maligned sea ha a weird and wonderful beauty. We took a bth in it cool, clear waUr, and detected no diflVreoc frco a bath at Coney Iabnd exiwpt that the water has auch density that we floated on it like pine ahinIea. No fifth from the salt ocan can live in it; but it is very attractive to the eye on a hot noc nday. A acorrhiDg ride we bad across the barren plain to the sacred Jordan which disappointed me aadly. At the place where the Israelite crossed and our Lord waa baptiaed it ia aboat 120 feet wide; it flowa rapidly and in a turbid current of light atone color. In sin and appearance it is tho perfect counterpart of the Mnakingum a fw mile above Zanesville. It ulca water ought to be turned off to irri gate it barren valley, whU-h might be changed into a garden. For beauty the Jordan will not compare with Elijah Brook Cherith, mhoae bright, sparkling stream went flowing paat our lodging place at Jericho. We I0J3M over night in a Greek conveat (very small), and rode text morning to see the ruin of the town made famous ry Joshua, Elijah, Zacchena, and the rectcratlTC Squalid Arab A Chicago "corre ponded, locking over a mercantile directory for find oa the black list the eatrv: "Z Gtnteaa, Charts J . lawyer." Tumiag to the definition cf th letter "Z he find : "Z Income uncertain and oft) precariou. Defer indefinite the pay ment of debts. Law ait to collect aatae would b nae'.ea. No credit or favor should be given." The Eagliah poU!So authorities er trying the experiment of supplying 1-ostmen in country dU'.rict with iycla and trWtle. THa ha ba done partisularly in Ireland, where the distance to be traversed by foot-me- enter are loegr than ia Great Pritain Tb authorities are watckiog the ex Mrixaect with a ooaaiderable degree cf interest owing to the fact that ot few cMuaLti have osrorrrd in the ue cf their near mean of locomotion. Xaa. xa I xta nT!tri nr.- . Or t fti 6 cl ar. Or 3 tt sraafc en&c a taw! aa. (V J cf pwraatx de ; OrU a ta4 flat ata Um tx. Or babUe tbi or u tee; ee acea im aaaa wbee tjrivl La c U r taitU aaXl ta, aaJ v4 a 14V. ' TU wa4 Me el the hnlki a ; ' TV afrtx tfalw! Is 5sa ba ; Tae in a iV ar fc abet 1 Tb fcffct i f a sea" aaaa fcrt . , -rv. Bfy Xii Bob Oblenis a character of note in St Louia, i dead. Hia father waa a blue FYewbyterfao mlnwter, hi wife wa from a wealthy and reepe-cted family, and hi own er.nl art was above reproach until be waa about forty. Then L killed an enemy in a aireet encounter, and aaa aest to the penitentiary fer twenty year. Hi wife bought a resi dence directly acros the way from the gubernatorial bouse ia Jcffereon City, and labored with governor after gov ernor to obtain a prdti. until the seventh granted ooe. Rat Ouieoi did not return to respectallity. II became a (tablcr, anJ a leader of gaiaMer. ex ertieg a considerable political iafiaeeeo in St Loni. and acaaausg a fortune, lie died at aeveaty, aoon after beeom utiog a aeemingiy dtvo Chriatian. irrxos or the nil. Ycu can always jadi-e a tailor by (ha makth wear, end a pler by th war he make.' ' . " Horn 49"" that soot ytrmTT 1H tLeehimoev. " 1 tLitk that yea are a thing of flae h'. it, aaewed Ike poker. It I net atrasre that when ta xWa peal the weddlc8 WUt tl onretrartir jr partie ehould W paired off. Jaw fc ta. A boot and aho abop bars est ta iga: Oeat iron la la." w all know it doea. tat we doa want aay wx cad of it When tb mined r hjtirUa p laced hi door plate ia pawn he was brant to le- matk: "Una I aigneu tUe pJtrffe. I would not fjw Lav to lJge Byajgn." A charch choir emaiat cf c ertaTlibd taa'.Haa anJ a M cf other folk i ho are deadly irr I m The acooapSWbtd cr. i the cs are talking wiiL.' A r'cmn cf rerUica fxl- telkiagever charaia, martlets, letioti aad tL vbjrt of lack gcrai'y. Aa old u&cl r f Bisc." aay oa 1 them. Anally, wben be died. bphd tae talisman, thaaka to wbicta . I Lava al- m a e am way got aJo&g u ta ii wenx "And it war "r.fty tbfetd a year." " Lay off your orcrcoat or y woa't f-l it wbect you gs ot," said tb land lord of a Wetni isn to a fcaat wa aitting by the Cr " Ibet' ht I'm a frail cf returned th taan. The last tirt I waa ber I laid ff auw overonat I ddn't feel tt wbeo 1 a sit out -Q I taven-l felt it aiaW Ce rt nmnli Sj( vrdif S'fit. a warrm or raoarraarJox. , bal Xaawv Ja. " Vow e w Ul ! ia t St-f-" LocSl Kx J.. J ftbomU er Ll srt at f lust lo lb U-co. . Haul! 4r. " ! , rj eb. , Well all rea a to U lt-f.-c A new taethM of preferring grain, recently discovered in France, tt i said, ha proven satisfactory. The eot of prevrvatinn 1 le than a'orat fn a granary, sod the wheat is safe from fir. fnnesU'lon, inject aad cryptogamic vegetation. The titd iKi XiUr, ia dearriiiurr thi me.hL lays tliat a heet-irca cistern, which ooenpie Utile spsoe aad hoi J nearly 300 b?hls nd is worked by an air pnn:p with a pna nre gauge" to indicate the degree of vacuum, coz&pri thi whole hermetic apparatus of prorvatica. On itapor tast effect which results from the nu merous and coatiaaou experiotcat made is octrdis to the journal in queaticn, that the vacuum sot oJy kill th prattic injects and prevent wge tatUra, but dries the graii at the same time. After a detention cf acres month, wheat and t or inclosed iu the apparatus, during letperit&eat at Via cense, it is repocud, were withdrawn in a perfect state of pncrrraUun. I-p-- Grcaa'J Vr. " It a.ittv lot To iri j aa to ii 4Wjv. TW t . tc 4 f mtm ri1ie WriJ le tf IM?' ca'l tt - .'srrs AVel. A Scene in the Ohio Legltlatare EUktr Tear Ago. Michael Baldwin, the irrepreaaible and incorrigible, was no mom digni fied, abetemioae cr more! ta hi posi tion t apeaker of the first Ohio house of representative than h had been ia former yeara in lssaer station, lie pre aided over the cbatabrr in 1S03, 1S04, and 1805. It i a matter of tradition that for hi own pecuniary benefit, and for tbe entertainment of those among the legislators who had a penchant for gaming, he established in hi room the with sandy whiker and red top boots, t game of virgt-et-un," himself acting Here come the boss.' "Howf- " The boas, I say; ain't he a lovely chimpanzee" " A what?" Chimpanzee!"; . He glared at me a moment, and then reached for his revolver. What is a chimpanzee 7 he growled, fiercely, hi red eye' growing large. ' I aaw that I had made some mistake, and hastened to explain. " Why why," I stammered, backing off, " a chimpanzee is a lovely creature found in Africa nothing so gorgeously beautiful aa a chimpanzee. That i the highest" compliment a lady can re ceive." "Oh P and tflf man looked relieved. "Tee, I think o myself, stranger; ahe ia a lovely chimpanzee; ahe' a ny wife." Testing Sugar. A late iasue of the Chicago Tribute has a long article ia the local columns, exposing the aduHerationa which are practiced in .sugar, and showing to what extent glucose is used in these adultera tion. : Ia that article a formula was given by a ugar dealer, whereby any housekeeper can . instantly detect the presence of glucose, aad that it may have a still wider circulation wa repeat the test by which the fraud may be dis covered. It is as follows : Take a handful of mixture and drop it into a glass of cool water. Stir it a few minutes, and 70a will notice that the cane sugar U entirely dissolved, leaving the grape) sugar undissolved at the bottom of the glass, ia the form of a white, sticky substance not at all tin like starch id looks, and quite bitter to year, and who is in complete possession l the taste. It won t do to use hoi water of all her faculties. She wa a daughter J ia you teat, however, for if you do the of one M. Pidault who at his death, in I whole thing will dissolve. The test is 1787, ' was a tenant of the Marquise ; ss banker and dealer, and as a matter of course winning mora frequatly than any of the other players. Oa aos 00 castas, after much drixkicg and a lata silting at ths gambling-table, Baldwin found himrelf in pcaseaaion not only of all the money of his companions, but of many of their watches. Ia the morning the house of rrpreeeatativew wa found to be without a quorum; but Baldwin, accustomed in heavy drinking and late hour, wa in hi place back of the p!kre deck. Happing savagely with hi gavel, he demanded the toll call of th house, and then sent the rgeant-at-Tm oot with orders to bring in the delinquent member. After an hour or so that functionary returned, followed by about a dozen members o the Ohio legislature, whoa bloodshot eves, suffused face, una teed r, . sham bling steps, and general air of shame faced neae indicated the late hour they had kept and their heavy indulgence. With much austerity of manner, Bald win reprimanded the tardy members, reminded tbem of the coat to which the infant Stat wa subjected by payment of their per diem, and was p roceeding to farther elaborate hi censor on their late arrival and th consequent delay of lerialation. when on of the delinquent. exasperated, beyond ccntrol, cried out: "Hold on, thera, .Mr. epeaxer, noia on I How could we teu what time it wa a hen th apeaker of the bona had all our watch ear Harper $ May- rise. Cyclone stories are becsoiirt as strings aad improbable as tbue UAi of the gliding rnak or the meek-eyed fiah. The bulk of these stories comes from Kansas "Th latest on is located la th vicinity of AJbUece, where a moth left her infant atrapped ia a chair ia the summer kitchen. A wird sfsra came up cuddealy. From a deal calm a gal arose in. twenty seconds. At tha rst warning the mother hurried to look after her chili, expecting to Sad it quietly drinkisg th contents of iu thumb. To her amazement and ex treme boiror, the saw baby and baket pots, paas and backet flying promts caously elotg with th tornado. Th wind aabaidsd almost ss quickly s it had riaea. aad th mother had the sat isfaction ol seeing th basket drop right U so ia a pile of hay about 130 leet beyond the yard fence. Sh.wa ravca mors gratified to see that the baby had uatai&ed so aerion injury.' Iu appe tite wa good immediately after th reeeue. d'Aiguiily. She ha lived under th government of Louis XV., Loni XVI, the first republic in all iU pha. the urat empire, Louis XVIII, Charles Louis Philippe, the republic of 1848, the second empire, and the republic of to-aay. so aimula that any housekeeper can make it, and there as no reason for say body's being deceived after discovering th fraud unless ha or she propose to be. Greer county, Texas, has two million I acres st unappropriated land. Aa Immense llaaaaer. The largest team-hammer ia th United Bute ha gone into operatioa at PiUaburff. It wsighs seventeen tons, while the anvil block nnder it weigh 1C0 ton. With a full head of team' it will strike a blow of ninety tons, but this tremendous weight is oot alway necessary ia hammering, it can b mad to alrix aa light a de aired. It ha a thirty-eight inch cylin der aad nine-foot stroke. The ponder ous blow raak th earth quake for a radias ol nearly 200 yard a. Tb big bmmsr ia fos forging steamboat shafU aad other heavy work. A foreign scientific journal remark a, a a curious physic-logical fact, that al though open-sir life is ao iavorsbl to health, yet it ha th apparent effect cf atuatiag the growth ia early yoath. Thus, wail the children cf weibio-do-percnta, carefully boused aad teaded, are found to be taller for their eg than th childreo of th poor, they are ao so strong ia after years; th laborer children, for instance, who play ia the lonely country roads aa 1 field all day, whose pares U lock their hatable doors when leaving fcr work ia the morning, so that their offspring ehail not rata entrance aad do mihief, are almost In variably , shrrt fc-t thsir age; the chil drsa of wovkiag farmers exhibit th asms peculiarity. After sixteen or eigh teen after -year - of hesitation, a ' tt were tha lad shoot up, aad. greai, hauls g broad fellows. of lmmecae strength. Accord tag to the sUtexacnt. it woald aeeaa that La- door life forces the growth at the) wrong period, and thus injure. Js it ao? Aa old lady ta Montreal ia ia a posi tion to sympathize with King Lear. &h soms time'ainc divided ' her property ameer, her children with th aader- a'-andiag that they should support bar. One of them has refused to contribute. aad sh ha been compelled to bricg suit sgainat aim. ' No doubt - ah think that it woald bav been wise if ah had kept possession of her property until her death, and tha left it for her heir to fight otct. ' 6h mad th nls tak so comraoa to paranU of thinking that her eaairea wer aU that a good, upright and tonorabls. It is proper aad fitting that taaa aad women should love aad chariah their own. bat nsxratal affection should not blind peo ple to tb isn 1 1 or tnetr envpnag. ids earv unconcern with whlea tt 1 br many that their children require no reetreibU that thy are ineapabU of wrong-doing ha oftea beea produe- ttv of most eaiaraitoas result. This fact is accepted, without questioa; "rs, Eli 1 Uarfilt. A fH-t from Nw Iiicctoc, OHin. totheC:aciunati Cmjmrcitl, asy: It will act br o it of plsce to give rota f; in relatioa to the veetf al can tec of the sped toother sal alratfat id gj-sed oa, npoa vh'Wa the eras cf tb who's civilianl world Late bem tune!, ss, ' tLc v ww rever turscd a poo mosher ! sod .-. b Ion. LUa Ballom aad a ! tu'.r, aUut by ths death ct their perrtU, were left Uccs la Ue wrrVi end erp rorided for, so far a tb tarer iUnce or poeewo cf prfptrty was ccacemd. Prfrrrt.j to ljve snitg reUttve. rre r&t to rs;de with aa unrleia N nhfTa Oti ani trs o4her, Elias, ru-jn t asdher aarl. tb father of Bax jiI Arnold, who then lived ra a farm near Norwich. Maskicgaa rxrattv. Crhln. Thre Eis Ballen made Let hetze,. tie rf ell v. LeJpv icg at tb hcua oc La the field, as was then totactiosrt tb eas tern ia a paee eowatry. Havttg ooiethicsr more than what at that day ass aa ordinary sdaadbva, EUx rro cured alout tweatytf H sitd Uught summer scbocl- ' The tcaoc Vaa w cae of the priraitit Alad. sad atoodia tha edge ol a dexts aJ Lrarily-timbered wooda. O- day tier cam' feerful srrm f witd aad raia, aota- peaied by thunder aol bgWaiag. .& woods were tellj ervcaeo, pat .tae wiad left th old leg ecbotlhoia tiia Jared. Nt ao in Ughtalcg. A H struck a tree that preyesd cioesly emsr th roof aad then U roof Mt Us taU4 icg iUtlf. Sim of lh pupCa wer great 1 alarmed, aad CO doubt thoaght tt th crack of doom or day of fadpasct Tho teacher, as calm and ec'l2ri a possible, tried to qst her pupu aad keep theca la their H- A tuaa wbe wascatCtM pvjplv in rpeakUg H th ocmrrsoce, says that lot. s- liUi whds be reracmberJ aotLbg, aaj the b lecked sround tad taw tt teach t sad all th rupCa lying dead r the floor, aa b thoaghu Presently th Uacher beraa to mpv'a lirde, aad ma to her feet. Tbcs, oa by Cv tb pupils got up. with a aiog!e exreptioa. tislp, taedica aad otherwise,' wa cb Uiaad a aooa a posnahl for thi oa. aad, though 1 J was -svd fnr a tixss. reavano Lad forever 'fled.' This was a fearful experience for a yoaag ferast -teacher, Aod it probably eoded hwf. career a aa iastractres. Eliaa Bsllow slater mtrried ta K"Tth- rn Ohio, aaal whits oa ariait to harth f rener rsads th sTaainrUacoeaAbraia Garfield. - aad subsequently ' married hio. .Whe Jaraea was siitera Tests old b and Lis widowed mother w Hed Moakitgum county La search of a school far tha' youtg tsaa, Theyviatud th family of th elder Arnold at 5errkV- aUo to facSy 4 Karaae ArnoU. f w. Lrxtajrtoo. aad bafor rsJerrwd to. . Th aaaaaal LUl-( ligssoeoi lh boy aad the ssVssaUhiag affection bet w era xaother aadai were what chiefly lac pressed LUelX apoa tha miads of thosa who &!rtald tha poor trambl boy who wa to beeomaa' invTxrs rrenaeet cr ta varua rJU!L aad die a martyr to the hlrh eflal poaitkn, zacre widely lisa rated thaat any thrr maa had rvesr been. Thsr ' appear! to b ao ooeaisg for a school ' Lath naifbborhcod ct h'orwieh. aad, mother and son want to Cad BaUea's t ia aa other part of th county, whsr . Jane got a school aad taught a sir g Is term. Th moory tha ar&d he ap-' plied la fwHker edacatirg hhasalf.' Aad thi waa why h and hi taolher vera haatiag a schonl . 1 ASmthera Jcamst war thi year rice crop ia th Oalf state will reach oa hundred aad fifty million bushel. t ia predicted that th rica lad aa try ! wiJ sooa rival that of rogar arrowiar ia yet Louisiana.
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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Nov. 17, 1881, edition 1
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